After being reborn as the Dragon King, I made a fortune on seafood

Chapter 148

Drake City is not that big.

It was formerly the town of Drake.

Later, because of the rising Antarctic tourism projects, this small town also developed and upgraded into a city.

This is a very typical southern mainland city, with snow-capped mountains, colorful houses, and stone-paved streets...all of these are completely different from China.

Lu Ao and the others sat on the bus, and as the bus drove forward slowly, there were more pedestrians on the street.

Some of them are locals, others are obviously travelers from all over the world.

Driving on such a street, Lu Ao finally had a sense of reality. They had come to this southern mainland city from Huaxia.

The car quickly arrived at the hotel.

The coordinator and assistants share the room together.

Lin Qiyan is considered a half-star, and has the qualifications to live in a room by himself.

As a staff member, Lu Ao can only live with others.

He told the coordinator, paid the rent out of his own pocket, and lived in a room alone.

The journey was very tiring, and most of the people simply ate a group meal after sharing the room and never came out again.

There are also some people who greet each other and want to visit this southern mainland city.

Lu Ao settled down, and originally wanted to call Song Zhou.

Looking at the time, it was already past seven in the evening in Drake City.

It is about six hours later than Huaxia here.

At this point in time, it was past one o'clock at home.

Lu Ao looked at the phone, and finally couldn't bear to wake Songzhou up. He thought about it, and only sent a message to Songzhou, telling Songzhou that he had settled down, so that Songzhou didn't have to worry.

Song Zhou didn't reply him immediately, he guessed that Song Zhou had already fallen asleep, so he stopped looking at his phone.

After sitting on the plane for so long, and then transferred to the bus, the clothes on his body had already turned into dried vegetables, even if they didn't smell bad, they didn't have any shape.

He took off his clothes and went into the bathroom to take a shower.

Halfway through the shower, there was a knock on the door.

Lu Ao raised his voice and said in Spanish: "No room service."

Maybe he was too stuffy in the bathroom, the sound could not be heard, the knock on the door was still persistent, and the thumping sound tormented Lu Ao's oversensitive ears.

He had no choice but to pull a bath towel on the shelf, wrap it in a hurry and open the door.

As soon as the door opened, Lin Qiyan was in front of him.

"Wow."

Lin Qiyan didn't know if he was steamed for a while, and his face turned red instantly.

He looked at Lu Ao's hair that was still dripping, and then glanced at Lu Ao's abdominal muscles. His eyes seemed to be stuck on it, and he couldn't pull it out no matter what. He envied: "You have a good figure."

Lin Qiyan hadn't seen Lu Ao's naked body for a long time.

Even if only the upper body is exposed, I haven't seen it.

He didn't expect that Lu Ao's figure was better than before. The firm muscle lines on his body were obvious but not too strong, especially the creamy skin. heartbeat.

Lu Ao didn't bother to pay attention to his overly straightforward gaze, and asked, "What's the matter?"

In fact, Lin Qiyan still couldn't get back to his senses. When he looked at Shang Lu Ao, he realized that he was halfway in the shower, the foam on his body was not washed off, and his face was a little impatient.

It seemed that as long as he answered no, Lu Ao might slap the door on his nose at any time.

Lin Qiyan quickly looked away, "Are you interested in fishing for king crabs?"

"Now?"

Lu Ao was surprised. He turned his head and glanced at the clock hanging on the wall. It was almost eight o'clock in the evening. If he went now, he would not be able to come back until early in the morning.

"That's right, it's now. Aren't we going to set sail for the South Pole tomorrow morning? If we miss today, we may not have a chance." Lin Qiyan shook his phone and said, "I've already contacted a good person, if you want to go , we can go together."

Lu Ao let him in, "Who is the other party, and how to get there?"

"You know that this is a stronghold for our Huaxia's ocean fishing, right? The person I contacted was a Huaxia captain, and most of the people on the boat were also Chinese. I asked him if he could take us out to sea to catch king crabs. He agreed, as long as I give him Just make an ad."

Lu Ao is actually not very familiar with the fishery industry, and this is the first time he has heard that this is Huaxia's deep-sea fishing base.

He was a little surprised, "How did you get in touch?"

"I checked some information before I came here. Isn't this place rich in king crabs? At that time, I wanted to make a video about king crabs, and then I got in touch with Captain Huaxia."

Lu Ao nodded, "I see, you sit down for a while, let's go together after I take a shower."

Lin Qiyan heaved a sigh of relief.

Lu Ao went into the bathroom wearing a towel, and there was a splashing sound of water. Lin Xiyan said from outside, "If you don't go, I'll go by myself. I'm really a bit gutless."

"Ok?"

"I haven't seen the captain before. Now it's equivalent to being a netizen. If you go there so rashly, if something happens, it will really be a disaster."

"Ah."

"Before I came out, I had asked the staff I was familiar with. If we didn't come back at four o'clock in the morning and didn't send him a message, he would call the police. You shouldn't worry too much about safety."

Lu Ao took a shower while Lin Qiyan was talking, and came out in slacks and a T-shirt, then picked up a coat on the bed and put it on his body, and said to Lin Qiyan, "Let's go."

"Aren't you going to wear more? It's quite windy outside, and it's quite cold."

Even if it is summer in the southern hemisphere, because of the high latitude, it is only more than ten degrees Celsius at night.

Going outside and being blown by the wind makes people shiver.

Lin Qiyan wore a sweater himself.

Lu Ao shook his head, "It's okay."

The two went downstairs.

There was no one in the lobby, and no one noticed that the two of them were no longer in the hotel.

Lu Ao took him to the street and asked, "What contract did you sign with the program group to allow you to go out and shoot videos by yourself between program shootings?"

"There is no regulation on this, but it should be no problem. Anyway, this video may not be broadcast until the program is broadcast."

The people in the program team didn't expect him to work so hard, and he could find time to shoot videos during the video recording period.

Because of the inconvenience at night, Lin Qiyan didn't bring a camera, but only a mobile phone and a camera stick.

He doesn't speak Spanish very well, and he mainly relies on Lu Ao to communicate with people when he goes out.

There are no people on the street, and I don't know if the people here don't like to go out at night, or because the law and order is not as good as in the country.

They looked left and right, but there was basically no one in sight.

Lu Ao originally wanted to take a taxi, so he had no choice but to download the relevant taxi-hailing software and hail a taxi online.

The taxi was long overdue, and it was nearly eight forty in the evening when it arrived.

Lin Qiyan apologized to Captain Yang on WeChat and asked them to wait a little longer.

The two got into the car, and the taxi drove them to the pier. It took them more than 20 minutes to arrive at the pier.

Lu Ao gave a tip over the limit, got out of the car, and found that there were quite a lot of people on the pier. At first glance, most of them were Chinese people with black hair and yellow skin. The pier is no different.

Lin Qiyan also saw it, and said in a low voice in Chinese: "People in our country are the most diligent. Generally, local people get off work when the time comes, and they won't come out to work again."

Lu Ao nodded, "How to find Captain Yang?"

"I'll call him and see how we can meet."

Lin Qiyan dialed the phone while talking.

Not far from them, a middle-aged man with a strong build and dark skin picked up the phone and said "Hello".

The two immediately realized that this was Captain Yang.

Lin Qiyan waved his hand and shouted to the big man, "Captain Yang, we are here."

He said, pulling Lu Ao over to shake hands with that Captain Yang, "Captain Yang, hello, excuse me."

"You're welcome." Captain Yang smiled heartily, "Welcome to Drake City."

"Thank you, shall we go out to sea to catch king crabs now?"

"Yes, while the wind is still calm, we have to go to sea quickly."

Lin Qiyan held up the hand-held camera and briefly introduced the current situation to the camera. Captain Yang waited for him to finish speaking, and took him and Lu Ao onto the boat.

The boat they use to catch king crabs is larger than ordinary domestic fishing boats, but not as big as a medium-sized fishing boat. According to visual estimates, the boat is about [-] to [-] meters long and [-] to [-] meters wide.

There are live cabins on board, and several large boxes of ice.

They boarded the boat, besides Captain Yang, there were three Chinese people.

Captain Yang gave them a brief introduction, and then sailed to the destination sea area.

Lin Qiyan asked: "Captain Yang, what method do we use to catch king crabs now? Do we catch them with nets?"

"This one can't be netted. King crabs are deep-sea crabs. They probably live below 500 meters below the seabed. They don't have such long nets. We mainly use cages to trap them here."

"Now the main thing is to put the cages with fish and other baits on the seabed one by one, so that the king crabs can't climb out after climbing in."

Lin Qiyan asked: "Is it similar to a ground cage?"

"The principles are similar, but the cages for trapping king crabs are round, and the ground cages are long." Captain Yang said, "You'll see it later."

Hearing what he said, Lin Qiyan looked forward to the king crab even more.

Their small boats moved quickly, and arrived at their destination in more than half an hour.

The cages are mainly connected to the buoys. When they see the buoys, they know which cages are their own.

Lin Qiyan was a little surprised when he saw all kinds of buoys floating in the sea. He patted and said, "With so many buoys, there must be a lot of king crabs here?"

"Not necessarily. How much you can catch depends on your luck. Sometimes a large piece of cages are put down. If the harvest is not satisfactory, there will be only one or two cages in each cage." Captain Yang joked, "But today there is Lu Ao. Now, it will definitely be rewarding.”

Lu Ao's reputation spread far and wide, and Captain Yang had also heard of his reputation, so he readily agreed to bring them here.

Lu Ao said: "I hope there will be a lot of fish."

"Hahahaha, good, a lot of fish."

While talking, their boat had stopped beside a certain buoy.

Captain Yang waved his hand and introduced to them: "This large buoy is ours, just pull up the cage underneath."

While they were talking, the workers on the ship had hooked a buoy with an iron hook and pulled the rope over.

The bottom cage is very heavy, and it is very difficult to pull up the bottom cage purely by hand. They use the net lifting machine on the boat, which is a pulley-like thing, and then pull the cage up.

The net lifting machine is only composed of pulleys and has no power. Even if the net lifting machine is used, it is very labor-intensive to pull it manually.

The bottom cage was placed deep, and the boatman changed after pulling it for a while.

Lin Qiyan looked at them while taking pictures, and said, "It's so heavy, there must be a big guy underneath."

Captain Yang grinned from ear to ear, "Thank you for your good words."

After more than five minutes, the first cage was pulled up, and as soon as it got close to the water, Lin Qiyan quickly pointed the camera at the cage.

Lu Ao saw it with sharp eyes, "There are a lot of king crabs."

Captain Yang took a closer look, and soon saw the king crabs crawling around inside the cage. The smile on his face deepened, and he yelled, and lifted the cage up, "One, two, three... Eleven, that's it!" There are eleven king crabs in one cage, that’s fine.”

Lin Qiyan said from behind the camera: "Good luck!"

"Hahahaha, a good start."

Captain Yang said as he grabbed the king crab inside.

The king crab in the south is different from the one in the north. The king crab near the Antarctic has many thorns, which roughly looks like a durian.

If it is a king crab near the North Pole, the spines will be much gentler.

The king crab here is also red. The head is quite big, and the body alone is more than 20 centimeters.

When it was caught, it was full of energy and tried to crawl out.

Captain Yang put it in the live cabin.

Lin Qiyan said: "This king crab is so tempting. Seeing it, I already think of the king crab meal."

"No problem, I'll treat you to big king crab when I go back later."

Lin Qiyan said: "Then I will take advantage of this opportunity to have a big meal. I have heard that the king crab here is particularly fat and cheap. I don't know if it is true?"

"Sure, it's the place of origin after all. If it's not cheap here, where else is it cheap?"

Captain Yang was grinning from ear to ear as he went out to catch king crabs. Usually they rarely had such a catch, but today they were really lucky, the first cage was full.

He caught a glance at Lu Ao, somewhat believing that this person's luck was really good, and he would pass it on.

Lin Qiyan watched his movements while educating fans outside the camera.

"...The king crab is not actually a crab. It belongs to the stone crab family. Unlike crabs, it only has six legs and two pincers. In addition, it has another obvious difference from crabs, that is, its The joints of the feet are bent backward, and the joints of the crab's feet are bent forward."

"Yes." Captain Yang answered, "There is another difference. The crab walks domineeringly, but this king crab walks like a walk, which is more leisurely."

Captain Yang introduced that he has caught all the king crabs.

For the empty cages, he put in the bait again and threw them into the sea, and they could come to collect the cages again during the day tomorrow.

Seeing that they caught so many king crabs in one cage, Lu Ao understood why they bought such a big fishing boat.

If the fishing boat is not big enough, they simply cannot hold each harvest.

Captain Yang took them to sail to collect other crab pots.

Catching king crabs is particularly profitable and hard work. The sea wind is strong at night and the weather is quite cold. However, everyone sweats when pulling the crab pots, even Captain Yang is no exception.

They tugged on the crab pot, and veins appeared around their necks, and their faces were all red.

Lu Ao looked at them like that and said, "Let me try."

"No, no, no, the visitor is a guest, just sit by and watch."

A boatman next to him said: "This crab cage is very heavy, and after a while you will be sweating all over your body. Brother, you took a bath and you are dressed so nicely, so don't pull it."

Lu Ao said, "It's okay, I'm strong."

Seeing his persistence, Captain Yang smiled and asked him to pull a cage.

Lu Ao didn't try to be brave, he was very strong, even stronger than before, it seemed that he could easily lift the crab cage that was so heavy that others pulled it up.

He calmly pulled up a crab cage, and it took less than 5 minutes.

Captain Yang went over to look at the crab cage he pulled up, "Two, four, six, eight... Seventeen, yes, Lu Ao, you are really lucky, even pulling a crab cage, you have gained more than others. "

"Coincidentally."

"Unfortunately."

Captain Yang and the others took turns with Lu Ao.

After a while, they found that Lu Ao was really lucky.

Captain Yang looked at the crab cage he pulled up, and said with emotion: "I will treat you to the biggest and fattest king crab later, it's worth your hard work with us!"

"It's easy to say, I'm strong and I can eat very well. You guys are going to bleed a little later."

"Hahaha, among other things, there are enough king crabs, ten or a hundred, as long as you can eat them, we can afford them all."

Lin Qiyan said from the side: "Captain Yang, be careful, I'm turning on the camera to record all your words."

Captain Yang waved his hand and said directly: "Just record it, I'll put it here, I'll have as much as you want later, it doesn't matter if you eat all of it, make friends."

Lin Qiyan was amazed at Lu Ao's ability to make friends when he took this photo.

He has a cold temper and doesn't like to talk, but it's always easy to make friends when he goes out. Many people like him as long as they talk to him.

This kind of good impression is not brought by appearance, but by personality charm.

No matter men, women, young or old, Lin Qiyan never saw anyone who didn't like Lu Ao.

They were chatting casually, and Lu Ao pulled up another crab cage.

When the crab cage was about to come out of the water, Captain Yang had sharp eyes and instinctively felt that there was something different in the crab cage.

He stared at the crab cage, and quickly shouted, "Mutant! There's a mutant underneath!"

Lu Ao: "Huh?"

"There's a blue king crab down there, I see it! It's huge and beautiful!"

King crabs are all red, but there are always some king crabs that mutate into other colors.

This kind of king crab tastes the same as ordinary king crabs in taste and taste, but it is much more expensive in the market. Many people think that this kind of king crab is a symbol of luck, and they will always buy it when they see it.

Captain Yang beamed with joy. On the one hand, he was happy that the king crab could be sold at a high price, and on the other hand, he was happy that this was a good omen.

People like them who depend on the sky for food like this kind of good omen the most. Among other things, after having this good omen, maybe he will catch more king crabs.

"Lu Ao, you are really a lucky star. We have been guarding the sea for so long, and we have been fishing for king crabs for 30 to [-] years. There are only a handful of blue king crabs caught, and you caught them as soon as you came."

Lin Qiyan hurriedly took a picture of this precious scene, and said while taking pictures: "This king crab is very similar to the ring on Lu Ao's hand."

Captain Yang was amused when he saw it, "Hey, it looks a bit like it. It seems that this king crab is destined to be with you."

Lu Ao pulled up the cage, and there were nearly twenty king crabs in this cage.

Captain Yang grasped the king crab softly, and the smile on his face never faded.

It took them more than three hours to pull up all the crab pots.

The crab pots for catching king crabs are big and heavy. They usually don't pull the crab pots so fast. Today, with Lu Ao's help, their time is greatly shortened.

After pulling up and down all the crab cages, Captain Yang went to see the king crabs in the fish cabin.

These king crabs are selected again. Pregnant king crabs cannot be caught, and king crabs that are too small cannot be caught. They must ensure the sustainable development of the king crabs here.

Lu Ao looked at so many king crabs and asked, "Catching king crabs for so many years, will it cause some damage to the king crab resources here?"

"That's not true. There weren't that many king crabs in the past. Isn't it because of global warming recently? The sea water here has also heated up. All the way to the continental shelf of Antarctica is now the territory of king crabs."

"Such a big piece?"

"That's right, the king crab is almost becoming an invasive species. Didn't there be news that the king crab entered Antarctica a while ago, causing a fatal blow to the ecosystem of Antarctica?"

Captain Yang sighed as he spoke. As a fisherman, he is also quite worried about the deterioration of the global ecology.

"It is said in the news that king crabs are basically upper-level carnivorous species when they go to Antarctica, which will cause great damage to the local ecology. If the weather gets warmer, the ecology of Antarctica may collapse."

Lin Qiyan couldn't help but asked, "Is this true or not? Are king crabs that powerful? Don't they affect Antarctica now?"

"It's true. King crabs generally live in places where the water temperature is relatively high. There were no king crabs there. Now that Antarctica gets warmer and the water temperature meets the requirements, the king crabs will move there?"

"Is there any countermeasure?"

"At present, there is no such thing. Who can take any measures for this kind of global warming? What's more, the sea is so deep. You see, we can only put these king crabs in crab pots. What can we do with these king crabs?"

Lu Ao asked: "Then what do you think, are there really a lot more king crabs now?"

"Yes. In the past, the government here did not allow so many of us to come here. You see, now all of us are people from our country. The government here has no choice but to introduce artificial capture of these king crabs, otherwise Once the king crab becomes a disaster, it will also cause a huge blow to the ecology here."

Others may not feel so deeply about global warming. Fishermen rely on it for food and are most sensitive to it.

What kind of fish is more and what kind of fish is less, they can know after a few more trips to the sea.

Hearing this, Lu Ao felt a little heavy in his heart.

Captain Yang looked at his eyebrows and said, "Oh, don't worry too much. We are just ordinary fishermen. What can we do? Let's leave this kind of thing to scientists. At worst, let's catch more and go back later. eat more."

Lin Qiyan was originally in a heavy heart when he said this, and immediately said: "Then it's settled, we will roast king crabs after we go back, and I want all the crab legs."

"Hahahaha, well, the body of the king crab has no meat in the first place, so you can't eat the body if you want to."